The 2025 Ontario election is just under a week away. As an exercise, we thought we would try to identify which ridings might be the closest ridings. To do so, we pulled the results from the 2018 and 2022 election results and calculated the winner’s margin of victory as a […]
Simon Kiss
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In LISPOP’s survey of Ontario voters in the 2022 election, we focused on attitudes toward housing. One of the series of questions that we asked respondents was to name a cause of the recent increase in house prices and rents. The next graph shows how different voters responded. On average, […]
Just what an election is about is a question at least as important as who is standing. Because most voters don’t have coherent ideologies, but rather many different attitudes, a candidate might be better off making an election about something good if you’re the incumbent (e.g. a recent uptick in unemployment) […]
LISPOP commissioned a survey of voters during the 2022 election and we’ll be disseminating findings from it over the next few weeks. But as an opening, I wanted to take a look at public spending priorities in the 2022 election compared to the 2018 election. To do so, I compared […]